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Al Viro committed 723ad1d90b5
percpu: store offsets instead of lengths in ->map[] Current code keeps +-length for each area in chunk->map[]. It has several unpleasant consequences: * even if we know that first 50 areas are all in use, allocation still needs to go through all those areas just to sum their sizes, just to get the offset of free one. * freeing needs to find the array entry refering to the area in question; again, the need to sum the sizes until we reach the offset we are interested in. Note that offsets are monotonous, so simple binary search would do here. New data representation: array of <offset,in-use flag> pairs. Each pair is represented by one int - we use offset|1 for <offset, in use> and offset for <offset, free> (we make sure that all offsets are even). In the end we put a sentry entry - <total size, in use>. The first entry is <0, flag>; it would be possible to store together the flag for Nth area and offset for N+1st, but that leads to much hairier code. In other words, where the old variant would have 4, -8, -4, 4, -12, 100 (4 bytes free, 8 in use, 4 in use, 4 free, 12 in use, 100 free) we store <0,0>, <4,1>, <12,1>, <16,0>, <20,1>, <32,0>, <132,1> i.e. 0, 5, 13, 16, 21, 32, 133 This commit switches to new data representation and takes care of a couple of low-hanging fruits in free_pcpu_area() - one is the switch to binary search, another is not doing two memmove() when one would do. Speeding the alloc side up (by keeping track of how many areas in the beginning are known to be all in use) also becomes possible - that'll be done in the next commit. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>